
Photo by Pavel Nekoranec on Unsplash. No attribution required. “What are you doing here? Israelis don't wait in line,” the young TSA officer at Ben Gurion airport of Tel Aviv told me in an elusive attitude on my way to an international conference held in Morocco.
I decided to write about this on the way back from the conference. It was a United Nations event to discuss the situation in Jerusalem after 50 years of occupation, and 25 years after Oslo accords. However, as one of the expert speakers pointed out, the conference's tagline should have read: Jerusalem after 70 years of occupation, which is also valid.